Latin Numbers can be expressed in both Arabic and Latin numeral notation. Knowing your Latin numbers is essential for any Latin speaker, whether you’re a beginner or advanced, so I’ve included a table below for your convenience. If you know your numbers from 1-100, I promise you’ll impress your friends for many a Superbowl to come with your Roman numeral knowledge. Happy counting!

Number

Latin numerals

Pronunciation

0

nihil

1

I

ūnus

2

II

duo

3

III

trēs

4

IV

quattuor

5

V

quīnque

6

VI

sex

7

VII

septem

8

VIII

octō

9

IX

novem

10

X

decem

11

XI

ūndecim

12

XII

duodēcim

13

XIII

trēdecim

14

XIV

quattuordecim

15

XV

quīndecim

16

XVI

sēdecim

17

XVII

septendecim

18

XVIII

duodēvīgintī

19

XIX

ūndēvīgintī

20

XX

vīgintī

21

XXI

vīgintī ūnus

22

XXII

vīgintī duo

23

XXIII

vīgintī trēs

24

XXIV

vīgintī quattuor

25

XXV

vīgintī quīnque

26

XXVI

vīgintī sex

27

XXVII

vīgintī septem

28

XXVIII

duodētrīgintā

vīgintī octō

29

XXIX

ūndētrīgintā

vīgintī novem

30

XXX

trīgintā

31

XXXI

trīgintā ūnus

32

XXXII

trīgintā duo

33

XXXIII

trīgintā trēs

34

XXXIV

trīgintā quattuor

35

XXXV

trīgintā quīnque

36

XXXVI

trīgintā sex

37

XXXVII

trīgintā septem

38

XXXVIII

duodēquadrāgintā

trīgintā octō

39

XXXIX

ūndēquadrāgintā

trīgintā novem

40

XL

quadrāgintā

41

XLI

quadrāgintā ūnus

42

XLII

quadrāgintā duo

43

XLIII

quadrāgintā trēs

44

XLIV

quadrāgintā quattuor

45

XLV

quadrāgintā quīnque

46

XLVI

quadrāgintā sex

47

XLVII

quadrāgintā septem

48

XLVIII

duodēquīnquāgintā

quadrāgintā octō

49

XLIX

ūndēquīnquāgintā

quadrāgintā novem

50

L

quīnquāgintā

51

LI

quīnquāgintā ūnus

52

LII

quīnquāgintā duo

53

LIII

quīnquāgintā trēs

54

LIV

quīnquāgintā quattuor

55

LV

quīnquāgintā quīnque

56

LVI

quīnquāgintā sex

57

LVII

quīnquāgintā septem

58

LVIII

duodēsexāgintā

quīnquāgintā octō

59

LIX

ūndēsexāgintā

quīnquāgintā novem

60

LX

sexāgintā

61

LXI

sexāgintā ūnus

62

LXII

sexāgintā duo

63

LXIII

sexāgintā trēs

64

LXIV

sexāgintā quattuor

65

LXV

sexāgintā quīnque

66

LXVI

sexāgintā sex

67

LXVII

sexāgintā septem

68

LXVIII

duodēseptuāgintā

sexāgintā octō

69

LXIX

ūndēseptuāgintā

sexāgintā novem

70

LXX

septuāgintā

71

LXXI

septuāgintā ūnus

72

LXXII

septuāgintā duo

73

LXXIII

septuāgintā trēs

74

LXXIV

septuāgintā quattuor

75

LXXV

septuāgintā quīnque

76

LXXVI

septuāgintā sex

77

LXXVII

septuāgintā septem

78

LXXVIII

duodēoctōgintā

septuāgintā octō

79

LXXIX

ūndēoctōgintā

septuāgintā novem

80

LXXX

octōgintā

81

LXXXI

octōgintā ūnus

82

LXXXII

octōgintā duo

83

LXXXIII

octōgintā trēs

84

LXXXIV

octōgintā quattuor

85

LXXXV

octōgintā quīnque

86

LXXXVI

octōgintā sex

87

LXXXVII

octōgintā septem

88

LXXXVIII

duodēnōnāgintā

octōgintā octo

89

LXXXIX

ūndēnōnāgintā

octōgintā novem

90

XC

nōnāgintā

91

XCI

nōnāgintā ūnus

92

XCII

nōnāgintā duo

93

XCIII

nōnāgintā trēs

94

XCIV

nōnāgintā quattuor

95

XCV

nōnāgintā quīnque

96

XCVI

nōnāgintā sex

97

XCVII

nōnāgintā septem

98

XCVIII

duodēcentum

nōnāgintā octō

99

XCIX

ūndēcentum

nōnāgintā novem

100

C

centum

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How can it be asserted that the correct pronunciation for Classical Latin can be defined? The original speakers didn’t exactly leave audio records, did they? I remember poor old ‘Chips’ (“Goodbye Mr Chips”) lamenting (as a teacher of boys) a directive on pronunciation which turned the Latin word vicissim from ‘veechissim’ into ‘we kissim’. I can’t help slipping into a sort of Italian pronunciation – which it sounds as if the Ecclesiastical pronunciation (I’ve not heard it) might be closer to.

It is a pleasure to have such a variety of Latin words on my computer to learn or relearn as a daily diversion!
Please continue the potpourri of vocabula et verba to refresh my Gymnasium studies : ante septenginta novem annos !

No,they didn’t leave audio records, but we can know how Latin was pronounced in ancient times several ways:

1. The Romans themselves wrote a lot about their language and how to pronounce it “correctly.” Public speaking was a high art and many rhetorical ‘handbooks’ about how to speak and how to pronounce words, survive.

2. The Roman empire was bi-lingual. Latin speakers in the west needed to learn Greek, Greek speakers in the east needed to learn Latin. Many instructional works still exist.

3. Errors and misspellings often reveal how a word was pronounced in everyday life – “habio” for “I have” rather than the correct “habeo.”

4. Transliteration to other languages and alphabets like Greek or Hebrew can reveal pronunciation. When Greeks spelled “Cicero” they could have used either Kappa or Sigma. They used Kappa, which means they pronounced it as “Kikero.”

Hi, I would like to tattoo the year of birth of my parent’s, sister and myself on the inside of my forearms. I’m not really sure for example the year I was born (1954) should it read XIXLIV or MCMLIV I want it to read like a year not a number in the thousands or are both correct. Sorry for the ignorance. I’m 60 years young ok old then and running out of brain cells but I’m still learning, thankyou for your time and effort hope to hear from you thanks Kevin

romanenthusiast, I think what moshiri is trying to say is that the number zero enabled the current numbering system to be established. as clever as the romans were they had no numeral for 0 which meant their numbering system was cumbersome to say the least.

Since its development zero has been fundamental in Descartes Cartesian coordinate system and in Newtons developments of calculus. Without calculus we wouldn’t have modern physics, engineering or computers.

So nihil just didn’t cut it. I’m afraid.

But going to the origin Im not quiet sure it was completely a Persian invention. I think the eastern Asians and Indians also had similar placeholder shapes, but the origin did come from a Persian mathematician (name slips my mind( if someone does google it and it says arab please do not mix arab and Persian. The guy was Persian but as all mathematicians and scientist of the time from that period (around 8th century AD approx.) they all had to have arab names or their works wouldn’t be published, or they wouldn’t have got funded.

To Moshiri and Amin- the use of zero as a number and place holder was developed in India around the 5th century. algebraic rules for the elementary arithmetic operations appeared first in India by Brahmagupta (7th century.